CNBC: CEOs like me still love our BlackBerrys: AOL boss

On the sidelines of the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Armstrong explained on "Squawk Box" that he uses three phones: "The Samsung Note I have, and I have an [Apple] iPhone also, they are excellent for me for Web viewing, entertainment, video, those type of things. And I use those phones everyday. But BlackBerry for me is a utility."

"If you look around Sun Valley," he said, "you see people who have to do a tremendous amount of work on BlackBerrys."

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Against the backdrop, Armstronglike many other BlackBerry loversis hoping for the best. "It's a great utility device. I love my Samsung Note, love my iPhone. But the stuff about BlackBerry, their future will hopefully be driven by utility. I don't know what their plans are, but I'd be happy if they did well."

On the sidelines of the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Armstrong explained on "Squawk Box" that he uses three phones: "The Samsung Note I have, and I have an [Apple] iPhone also, they are excellent for me for Web viewing, entertainment, video, those type of things. And I use those phones everyday. But BlackBerry for me is a utility."

"If you look around Sun Valley," he said, "you see people who have to do a tremendous amount of work … on BlackBerrys."

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Against the backdrop, Armstrong—like many other BlackBerry lovers—is hoping for the best. "It's a great utility device. I love my Samsung Note, love my iPhone. But the stuff about BlackBerry, their future will hopefully be driven by utility. I don't know what their plans are, but I'd be happy if they did well."

Yeah, I think what cool is that he states BlackBerries are a great utility device for getting much things done quickly, but we know the new BB10 devices can handle the media consumption (processing videos/images, gaming, apps and browsing) just as effectively if not better than the iphone or Android devices. It would be great to get people like this CEO that are use to using multiple devices to use Blackberry as their daily driver.. that should really be BlackBerry's goal.

.....then there are the CFO's, COO's and lets not forget 2nd and 3rd teir management levels that require the same level of productivity.

CEO of a company does not just mean CEO of a furtune 500 company. With tens of millions of businesses globally out there, each one has a top of the totem pole person in them followed by his/her right hands.

Until they decide that BYOD was a huge mistake, fire the IT VP for implementing it (even though the CEO was probably chasing some buzz word) and then gets the company back on BES and BlackBerry devices.